| seedling | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | - |
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| selling | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, merchandising |
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| settling | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: subsidence, subsiding |
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| settlings | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: dregs |
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| shambling | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle, shuffling |
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| shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
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| shilling | (noun) an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound | - |
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| (noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: bob, British shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Kenyan shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Somalian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Tanzanian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Ugandan shilling |
| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| shrilling | (noun) a continuing shrill noise | - |
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| shuffling | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: make, shuffle |
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| (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffle |
| sibling | (noun) a person's brother or sister | Synonyms: sib |
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| signaling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalling |
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| signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
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| sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
| sling | (noun) bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck | Synonyms: scarf bandage, triangular bandage |
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| (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, slingshot |
| (noun) a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released | - |
| (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: slingback |
| (noun) a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice | - |
| (verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: catapult |
| (verb) hold or carry in a sling | - |
| (verb) move with a sling | - |
| (verb) hang loosely or freely; let swing | - |
| slingback | (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: sling |
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| slinger | (noun) a person who uses a sling to throw something | - |
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| slinging | (noun) throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling) | - |
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| slingshot | (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, sling |
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| smelling | (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: redolent |
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| (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smell |
| smiling | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, twinkly |
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| (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, grinning, smile |
| smilingly | (adverb) with smiles; in a smiling manner | - |
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| smuggling | (noun) secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due | - |
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| sniveling | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
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| snorkeling | (noun) skin diving with a snorkel | Synonyms: snorkel diving |
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| snuffling | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: sniffly, snuffly |
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| snuggling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociolinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to sociolinguistics | - |
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| sociolinguistically | (adverb) with respect to sociolinguistics | - |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| soiling | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soilure |
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| sparkling | (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: effervescent |
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| (adjective) shining with brilliant points of light like stars | - |
| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, twinkle |
| sparling | (noun) the common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus |
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| (noun) common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt |
| spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
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| spiraling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spiralling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spoiling | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoilage |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoilage |
| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| squalling | (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squally |
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| squealing | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky |
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| stabling | (noun) accommodation for animals (especially for horses) | - |
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| stalling | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stall |
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| starling | (noun) gregarious birds native to the Old World | - |
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| startling | (adjective) so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | - |
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| startlingly | (adverb) in a startling manner | - |
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| starveling | (noun) someone who is starving (or being starved) | - |
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| stealing | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealth |
| sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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| (noun) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK | - |
| stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, suppression |
| stockpiling | (noun) accumulating and storing a reserve supply | - |
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| stonewalling | (noun) stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
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| straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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| stragglingly | (adverb) in a ragged irregular manner | Synonyms: raggedly |
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| strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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| stripling | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager |
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| struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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| sublingual | (adjective) beneath the tongue | - |
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| suckling | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: lactation |
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| (noun) a young mammal that has not been weaned | - |
| (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, nursling |
| swashbuckling | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swaggering |
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| (noun) flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior | - |
| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| swilling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, guzzling |
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| tailing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: shadowing |
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| tattling | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing |
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| teetotaling | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotalism |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| telling | (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: impressive |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telltale |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, weighty |
| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| tellingly | (adverb) in a telling manner | - |
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| thrilling | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: electrifying |
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| (adjective) causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock | - |
| throttling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, strangulation |
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| tickling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tingling, titillating |
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| (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, titillation |
| tiling | (noun) the application of tiles to cover a surface | - |
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| tilling | (noun) cultivation of the land in order to raise crops | - |
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| tingling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tickling, titillating |
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| (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: prickling, tingle |
| tinkling | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkly |
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| toiling | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, labouring |
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| toweling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: towelling |
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| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| trailing | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: tracking |
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| trampling | (noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping | Synonyms: trample |
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| traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| trembling | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, shivering |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
| trifling | (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, paltry |
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| (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, dawdling |
| trilingual | (adjective) using or knowing three languages | - |
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| tripling | (noun) increase by a factor of three | - |
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| trolling | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: troll |
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| troubling | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, worrisome, worrying |
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| truckling | (noun) the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons) | - |
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| tumbling | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: acrobatics |
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| twinkling | (adjective) shining intermittently with a sparkling light | - |
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| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, wink |
| twirlingly | (adverb) doing twirls | - |
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| unappealing | (adjective) not able to attract favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings | Synonyms: unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic |
| unappealingly | (adverb) in an unappealing manner | - |
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| unavailing | (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, meaningless, otiose |
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| underling | (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary |
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| unfailing | (adjective) tireless | Synonyms: unflagging |
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| (adjective) always able to supply more | - |
| (adjective) not liable to failure | Synonyms: foolproof |
| unfailingly | (adverb) without fail | - |
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| unfeeling | (adjective) devoid of feeling or sensation | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, stonyhearted |